The Progress., 1887-12-10

Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y, re-
GENTLY sold a tract OF timber land in Wiseon-
sin for 500, 600
| MICHIGAN.
Hazelton's saw, stave and head mill In
| New Haven was burned the other day. Loss
$40, 900; no insurance
| recent collision on the Lake Shore road
at Grosvenor resulted iii the injury Of five
employees
Charles Sinlmonds, aged seventy-eight
years, OF Richmond, was found dead in his
yard recently, where he had fallen while
| his wife was absent attending funeral
Several Birmingham boys Went out
Shooting recently, and one Of them. Bert
! Collier, was asked to shoot gun which
had been purposely overloaded The
weapon exploded, and Collier received in
juries which would probably prove fatal.
His companions deserted him; and it was
three hours before he was discovered
l. K Shaw, farmer near Romeo. sold
wheat and received $500 the other day.
He did not reach home, and search found
his horse and buggy hitched to fence near
piece of woods and his dead body in the
woods
I. John Feeny was convicted at Detroit re-.
| Gently of cutting and carrying away timber
from the Indian reservation in Isabella
! County
Marshall hogs are suffering greatly from
the ravages of hog cholera
The store of George l. Clapp, at Glenn,
Ottawa County, was burned few days ago.
evidently lhaving been fired by burg
oS fhn oE% O. l..
broken open. Loss $4,000
Judge G. C. Fuller, of Big Rapids, brought
Sic, 600 libel suit against the Herald of
that place for alleged defamatory state
ments. The case was heard recently and
was thrown out, it being decided there was
no cause for action
doing business under the name of w, D.
Robinson & Co., has failed for $5G,O
August Gunther;' an employe of the Han
cock chemical works, undertook recently
to drive nail into q scantling saturated
with nitro-glycerine. The result was an
explosion which fatally hurt Gunther.
John W. Brooks, manager of the Detroit
Corset Company, in cleaning out his valise
| recently threw on the floor some poisonous
pills taken by him while suffering from GU
ralgla After MIR. Brooks left the house his
ghteen-months-O child found and ate
the pills and died soon afterwards.
+ Two fishermen named Nelson and Jewell
we're lost recently in storm near Cheboy-
gan.
MINNESOTA.
David Morrell, a grain dealer at Winona
for twenty years, died the other night, aged
sixty-six years.
Peter Barrett, who is charged with the
murder OF a man named TollefsOn at Min
neapolis, was taken to that city from
Omaha recently and safely lodged in Jail
Hon. c. NJ Ramsey, of Stephen, has gone
to Scotland to attend the funeral of his
brother and s:ster-in-law, the Earl and
Lady Dalhousie.
1t is feared that Minneapolis may suffer
from water famine before the winter is
over because of lack of power to run the
pumps from which the city's supply is re-
Ceived
The new Pilgrim congregational Church
at Duluth, just inclosed, and on which
$2S, 900 had already been expended, caught
fire the other afternoon from stove in use
to dry the plastering and was destroyed
Fire and water destroyed $l7 900 worth
of property on Nicollet avenue, in Minneap-
oils, the other day.
Two Duluth evening papers, the Herald
and Journal, have consolidated, merging
the establishments into stock company, and
now appear as the Duluth Eetald-Jourual,
under the editorship of c. A. Lounsbury
A fire the other morning in Metropolitan
block, one of the finest in Duluth, damaged
the building slightly, while water damaged
dry goods stock of L Freimuth to the ex-
tent of nearly $1O, 900 and contents of law
and other offices about $4,000.
Rev. Perry Hoag, pastor of the Christian
Church at Winona, died of heart disease in
a stage-coach the other day between Coler
and Sterling, III.
A. B. Shipley, treasurer of Faribault, war
found in his cellar recently with bullet
hole in his head He had been sick fol-
some time, and was the victim CT quee
hallucinations. He was quite wealthy,
Jepps N. Jehson, twenty three years old
fell from the tower of the windmill at the
water-tank in Lake Benton the other morn
ing, striking head first on moving freight
train, and was killed.
The will of the late Thomas A. Harriso.
of Minneapolis, gives to Hamline Univers1-
| ty the sum of $5O, 600 in cash.
DAKOTA.
l0e FARMERS NaGlOnal cooperative In
| surance Company was organized at Plank
| inton the other day, with capital of 500,
600. Over one-half of the stock was SUBJ
scribed in that city and the remainder
throughout the Territory, with Codington
County in the lead, having $50, 1000. ~
| A fire few days ago at John Murphy's
place, three miles west of Altoona, de-
! stroyed his barn, outbuildings hay and
| granary in which was stored $50 bushels
of wheat, 25O of oats and his household
goods
Whitewood, ten miles from Deadwood, is
now the Black Hills terminus of the Chi
| cagO g. Northwestern railroad This short
ems the stage journey to a brief pleasure
| drive over the mountains. I
North of Volga recently a little fve-year-
old child was killed by prairie wolves.
| A cannon used in 1879 for protection
against the Indians was excavated6from .
bed of eight feet OF gravel at Deadwood the
other day. 1t is said to have disappeared
during the Dakota Hood, and this is the first